LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Howard Radzely, Jonathan Snare
The Office of the Solicitor of Labor (SOL) has recently developed an Operating Plan for enforcement in 2011 and beyond. Because SOL is the legal enforcement arm of the Department of Labor (DOL or the Department... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On November 19, Vice President Joseph Biden announced a joint initiative between the Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) and the American Bar Association (ABA) to assist plaintiffs in obtaining legal counsel for... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On July 20, the White House made a strong push for the Senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act (theAct), which the House approved in January 2009 in a 256-163 vote. In written remarks, President Obama thanked ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On June 22, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) significantly increased the number of employees who will be eligible to take Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for a child, by broadening the definition of ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
Employers are increasingly entering into mandatory arbitration agreements with individual employees, requiring that employment disputes be resolved by an arbitrator rather than in court. These agreements often ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
In New Process Steel, L.P. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. , No. 08-1457, decided June 17, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Section 3(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act requires that the National Labor Relations Boar... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Financial Regulatory Reform LawFlash
Thomas Linthorst, Sarah Bouchard
Financial reform legislation, if signed, will—among other changes—allow employee whistleblowers to bypass Sarbanes-Oxley administrative proceedings and its 90-day statute of limitations for bringing retaliation claims.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits Practice
On May 17, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) initiated a 401(k) compliance review by sending questionnaires to 1,200 plan sponsors. [1] This is the first time that the IRS h... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Washington Government Relations and Public Policy LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On April 26, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its spring 2010 regulatory agenda outlining its anticipated regulatory and enforcement focus for the upcoming year. In connection with the release of the spri... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
A recently enacted Connecticut state law, H.B. 5204, increases the civil penalty imposed upon employers that are found to have engaged in the improper classification of independent contractors. Connecticut law ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On March 30, in Jones v. Harris Associates L.P. , No. 08-586, __ U.S. __, 2010 WL 1189560 (Mar. 30, 2010) [1] , the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
Last year, as part of a department-wide initiative to sharpen the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL's) focus on "indifferent" repeat-offense employers, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced that the Occupational Safety... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
Amidst high unemployment and continued cutbacks at many companies, unpaid internships have become increasingly common in the private sector. According to recent published reports, the U.S. Department of Labor (... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On March 24, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its first-ever "Administrator Interpretation." According to the WHD, these broad general pronouncements are designed to... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
Hospitals, nursing homes, and similar employers throughout the country routinely pay their employees pursuant to an "8 and 80" overtime rule, under which employees are paid overtime for all hours worked in excess of eig... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Washington Government Relations and Public Policy LawFlash
Employee Benefits Practice
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Healthcare Reform Law) that President Obama signed into law on March 23 contains a number of items that will affect employer group health plans in the coming months-al... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On March 12, in Randall et al. v. Rolls-Royce Corporation , No. 06-cv-860-SEB-JMS, the Honorable Sarah Evans Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana denied certification of a putat... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
ESOP and Employee Benefits Practice
Plan sponsors of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) that have been submitted for a favorable determination letter know that the IRS is carefully reviewing plan provisions that provide for the mandatory conversion of... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits Practice
Plan sponsors are reminded that April 30, 2010 is the deadline for adopting preapproved master and prototype (M&P) and volume submitter (VS) defined contribution plan documents that have been updated to comply with ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits Practice
It's proxy season. For public companies that rely on the performance-based compensation exception to the $1 million annual deduction limit under section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), that means it... more